1611

This is how myth is preferred

to harsh facts:

Four centuries enthralled

by the image of Henry Hudson

send adrift with his young son

by the mutineers -

and back in harbour in England

still stained blood on the ship's deck,

unexplained.

Having to choose between

these visions and

murder, bodies thrown

in the cold waters of the bay

the posterity prefers

slow death by 'merciful' rebels.

Our preference for myth

pardons like king James' regime.

24.07.2019